A Theodicy: Or, Vindication of the Divine Glory, as Manifested in the Constitution and Government of the Moral WorldNelson and Phillips, 1853 - 414 pagina's |
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Pagina 14
... action is the key to the intel- lectual world , by which its difficulties are to be laid open and its enigmas solved . Not possessing this key , it was as impossi- ble for Plato , or for any other philosopher , to penetrate the mystery ...
... action is the key to the intel- lectual world , by which its difficulties are to be laid open and its enigmas solved . Not possessing this key , it was as impossi- ble for Plato , or for any other philosopher , to penetrate the mystery ...
Pagina 36
... action and necessity . " " Now , when I assert , " says he , " that the will , being deprived of its liberty , is necessarily drawn or led into evil , I should wonder if any one considered it as a harsh expression , since it has nothing ...
... action and necessity . " " Now , when I assert , " says he , " that the will , being deprived of its liberty , is necessarily drawn or led into evil , I should wonder if any one considered it as a harsh expression , since it has nothing ...
Pagina 37
... action , it is admitted on all hands , destroys accountability for external conduct , wherever it ob- tains . Indeed , if a man is compelled to do a thing against his will , this is not , properly speaking , his act at all ; nor is it ...
... action , it is admitted on all hands , destroys accountability for external conduct , wherever it ob- tains . Indeed , if a man is compelled to do a thing against his will , this is not , properly speaking , his act at all ; nor is it ...
Pagina 38
... action , they repudiate the idea of calling this a freedom of the will . " Lombard at length pronounces , " says Calvin , " that we are not therefore possessed of free - will , because we have an equal power to do or to think either ...
... action , they repudiate the idea of calling this a freedom of the will . " Lombard at length pronounces , " says Calvin , " that we are not therefore possessed of free - will , because we have an equal power to do or to think either ...
Pagina 40
... action , he admits , to render us accountable for our external actions ; but not from an internal necessity , to ren- der us accountable for our internal volitions . But this does not seem to be a satisfactory reply to the difficulty in ...
... action , he admits , to render us accountable for our external actions ; but not from an internal necessity , to ren- der us accountable for our internal volitions . But this does not seem to be a satisfactory reply to the difficulty in ...
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Pagina 20 - To ask or search, I blame thee not ; for heaven Is as the book of God before thee set, Wherein to read his wondrous works...
Pagina 29 - Him were laid asleep, then straight arose a wicked race of deceivers, who, as that story goes of the Egyptian Typhon, i with his conspirators, how they dealt with the good Osiris, took the virgin Truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds. From that time ever since, the sad friends of...
Pagina 113 - By nature free, not overruled by fate Inextricable, or strict necessity: Our voluntary service he requires, Not our necessitated; such with him Finds no acceptance, nor can find ; for how Can hearts, not free, be tried whether they serve Willing or no, who will but what the'y must By destiny, and can no other choose?
Pagina 30 - The light which we have gained, was given us, not to be ever staring on, but by it to discover onward things more remote from our knowledge.
Pagina 204 - For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell ; and, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.
Pagina 132 - All he could have; I made him just and right, Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall. Such I created all the ethereal Powers And Spirits, both them who stood, and them who fail'd; Freely they stood who stood, and fell who fell.
Pagina 232 - But He, who knew what human hearts would prove, How slow to learn the dictates of his love, That, hard by nature and of stubborn will, A life of ease would make them harder still, In pity to the souls his grace design'd To rescue from the ruins of mankind, Call'd for a cloud to darken all their years, And said, ' Go spend them in the vale of tears.
Pagina 20 - Imports not, if thou reckon right; the rest From man or angel the great Architect Did wisely to conceal, and not divulge His secrets to be scanned by them who ought Rather admire; or if they list to try Conjecture, he his fabric of the Heavens Hath left to their disputes, perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide...
Pagina 241 - How long, speaking to those who are passing through it, how long, ye simple ones, will ye love folly, and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge ? Turn ye at my reproof. Behold, I will pour out my spirit upon you, I will make known my words unto you.
Pagina 298 - But endless punishment! hopeless misery, through a duration to which the enormous terms above imagined, will be absolutely nothing ! I acknowledge my inability (I would say it reverently) to admit this belief, together with a belief in the divine goodness — the belief that " God is love," that his tender mercies are over all his works.